The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-20

CLAIMS for supper, and during the night all
were taken violently i'll. At last accounts
their condition was considered critical.
Some Of the family ate the CLANS raw and
others stewed. All who ate them raw were
the most affected.
The graveyard insurance scandal which
occasioned quite sensation in Fall River,
Mass, three years ago, is revived by the re-
port that John Heaven, one of the persons
implicated, who fed to Canada, has re-
turned and has turned States evidence.
The Woman's Board of Missions met at
New Haven, Conn.,, on the 18th. The secre-
tary's report shows that ninety eight mis-
sionaries, forty-eight Bible women, twenty
seven boarding schools and 200 village
schools are supported by the board. Re-
ceipts for the year were $92, ass. There was
large attendance from the Middle and
New England States.
Howard T. Blackstone, the defaulting
bank clerk Of the Canal National bank, Of
Portland, Me-, was arrested at Winnipeg,
Man., q few days ago on charge Of for
gerry, by g. NJ. Warmel, the sheriff of Oxford
County, Maine, and St. Paul detectives.
Blackstone fed from Portland in November,
after defrauding the bank Of $4,000.
The master builders convention at Bos-
ton on the 18th completed arrangements to
form national builders association. A
convention for that purpose will be held in
Chicago, March % next.
Annie Barrett, the ive-year-old daughter
OF the janitor of the post-ofiic at Newburg,
N. Y, on the 18th fell over tair railing Of
the building sixty-fve feet to the floor. She
was terribly bruised, but it is thought may
recover.
At Pittsburgh on the 18th two boys named
Smith and Mertz were coasting on Erin
street, when their sled ran into heavy
wagon and was demolished. Smith was in
stantly killed and Mertz received probably
fatal injuries.
At New York on the 18th Judge Pratt de-
MED the motion for 8 tay Of sentence in
the case of ex-Alderman McQuade, con-
victed of bribery in the Broadway railroad
matter, and the prisoner was sent to Sing
Sing.
At a meeting of the Western ponneyl-
vania Poultry and Bench Association in
Pittsburgh on the 18th, it was decided to
hold the annual bench show on April II to
15 inclusive. The prizes ag gregate r. Goo
Coal was so scarce in Brook klyn, N. Y, on
the 18th that many small factories were
forced to stop work. Coal dealers refused
to sell in large quantities, even when offered
eight dollars ton.
journalist and lawyer, husband of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, died Of pneumonia on the
14th at his residence in New York City. He
| was in his eighty year.
At Boston, Mass, on the 18th the jury In
the suiI of Father Fitzgerald VS.. Arch bishop
Williams for slander rendered verdict for
the defendant.
John c. Donnelly, baggageman on the
Wabash railroad, was arrested at Peoria,
Ill, on the 14th for stealing package con-
tanning 81, 600 from the United States Ex-
press Company.
About $500 hands in P. Lorillard's to
bacco factory at Jersey City, N. j., struck
work on the 18th owing to a proposed reduc-
tion in wages. There was no disorder, and
the factory has been closed.
Business failures throughout the country
during the seven days ended January Ii
| number for the United States 264, for Can
ada 90; total Of 323, ag ainst 299 the previ
| GUS week.
A nest Of six boilers in an engine house
on the Delaware Il Hudson Canal Com
pany's railroad, near Fairview, Pa, blew
up on the 14th. Hawley Weed, the engi
neer, and Perry Parsons, fireman, were
fatally injured. The engine house is total
wreck.
That portion of the rugged bank nearest
the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, on the Can
ada side, known asthe s'Upper Table Rock, ,
fell on the 18th with deafening crash.
mass of limestone and slate 1000 feet il
length by about 60 feet in width and LII
feet deep is piled in heaping mass below
About 123, 900 yards of rock is calculated tc
have fallen. The supposed cause of the
rock giving away is the low water, steady
freezing weather for the past three weeks
| and the heavy weight of the accumulated ice
WEST AND SOUTH.
/ ,1r1 loll
at San Francisco and vicinity on the 11th
age is reported.
The iron passenger bridge spanning
Raisin river at Blissfeld, Mich, fell on the
| 18th, intense cold causing the iron to con
tract and draw upon the supports. William
Slack and Charles Quigley were precipita
ted to the ice below and fatally injured.
The Missouri Pacific passenger train from
Omaha was thrown from the track neal
Dunbar, Neb., on the 18th, killing james
II. Dewitt, the engineer, and fatally injur
ing Frank o. Chenowith, express messen
ger Two other trainmen and seventeen
passengers were more or less hurt. Som,
malicious persons had removed a rail, caus
ing the wreck.
Ten buildings in the business portion o
London, Ill, were destroyed by fire on the
18th. The losses aggregate $4,000; insur
ance small
A freight train on the Illinois Centra
railroad was wrecked on the 18th near Ash
fkum, Ill. c. Koester, a stockbroker from
Melvin, H., was killed and Postmaste
Holmes, of Melvin, and man named Enocl
were seriously injured.
The Michigan House on the 18th passed
resolution submitting to the people prohi
bition amendment to the constitution.
The Nevada Legislature, in joint conver
tion on the 18th, elected William NJ. Stew
art United States Senator by a vote of
out of SO.
A joint Republican caucus of the Illinoi
! Legislature on the 18th nominated Charlie
B. Farwell, of Chicago, to succeed John A
Logan in the United States Senate. Tn
Democrats nominated W. R. Morrison fo
the same position.
The Ohio Wool Growers convention ad
journed at Columbus on the 18th after pas
ing resolutions declaring in substance ths
the reduction of the wool tariff in 1888 ha
| caused decrease of 100000 pounds {
wool in the annual production of Ohio an
10000, 600 pounds in that of the whole coul
try, while the importations of foreign WOO
are rapidly increasing.
Mrs. Joseph Postlethwaite, who lost he
! husband and two sons in the recent Bait
, more & Ohio wreck at Republic, O., wi
, begin suit against the company for $3.50
damages.
| Martin Danach and two boys, John ar
Adam Louchcaske, were fatally i<Jured
l Detroit, Mich, on the 18th, by the falling
? a wall of a building in process of demol
tion.
John A Hewett was recently awarded
a verdict of $4,000 against the Flint & Pei
g Marquette railroad company for damage
| >lo;,
t as engineer ON that road.
David W. Hoffman and James w. Be
t were arrested at Dunbar, Neb., on the 13t
g charged with having caused the wreck
n the passenger train near that place a fe
f days ago, whereby Engineer Dewitt w
t killed.
y Albert Odell, James Lamb. John Stevel
4 and John L. Echolz were hanged at F
s Smith, Ark, on the 14th, for murders col